the passenger jet made an emergency landing at an abandoned airfield
Recent Examples on the WebThe Wall Street Journal reported last month that the United States was holding preliminary talks about positioning American reconnaissance drones at airfields in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Benin.—Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2024 Classes were canceled Monday for schools across Santa Barbara County, and the Santa Barbara airport closed Sunday evening due to flooding on the airfield, according to its website.—USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024 Work may involve planning, coordinating and managing the operation of the airport operations control center, terminal, landside and airfield.—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024 Santa Barbara Airport closed due to flooding on the airfield.—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024 For the cast’s expansive and continuously progressing military wardrobes, Atwood poured through historical documentation, personal photos from veterans’ families and the archives of the American Air Museum in Britain, near the 100th’s Thorpe Abbotts airfield in England.—Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024 When the airfield was finally taken three months later, only 130 able-bodied soldiers remained of the 2,600 who had crossed into Burma in 1944 with Merrill’s Marauders, a fabled unit that was one of the forerunners of the Army’s Special Operations elite, the 75th Ranger Regiment.—Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024 Military bases, firefighter training areas and airfields are also part of the picture.—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024 Military analysts have credited the general with preparing the army in the weeks and days before the attack by flying jets to reserve airfields and moving troops from barracks that were subsequently bombed.—Marc Santora, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
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